Thursday, December 20, 2012

I always experience a comment here on the blog as a tap on the shoulder, especially if they are favorable. And luckily most are.

But some comments, often short ones, come with links to web sites. I have tested a few of these links and the web sites either were directly marked as red in Web Of Trust or they linked to people selling THEIR services or merchandise.

THIS BLOG IS NOT AN ADVERTISING PLATFORM FOR ANYONE!

Please do not salt your comment with any link. I do not have the time to check the veracity and trustworthiness of every link!

All comments with links will be deleted and will NOT appear on the blog. Save both of us the trouble.

As usual I welcome comments and suggestions right here in the blog. Thank you in advance.

Friday, December 7, 2012

I don't want to repeat almost the whole article that I stumbled upon today.You can read it here but please read all of it, that is please click through to page 2.

Every word of this article is true and please, take these quoted words to heart (emphasis added):

In the vast majority of cases, victims do not regain access to their
computer unless they hire a computer technician to remove the virus
manually. And even then, they risk losing all files and data . . .

That begs a few questions:

Do any of your files, documents, poetry, articles you wrote, tax files, pictures of the grand kids or a deceased loved one or of important events in your life, whatever you have stored in your computer, does any of that have a value to you?

Are these files and what they represent emotionally important?

Are these files and what they represent financially or even legally important for your business (accounting, contracts a.s.o.)?

I am sure you can think of other things on your computer that may be important to you. If you answered Yes to any of the questions above then I have to ask you:

Do you have a stable backup solution in place?

A backup solution that does not depend on you remembering to
actually start the backup but rather does it's job automatically in the
background as long as your external disk drive is plugged in and turned
on?

Please remember that any data stored in a computer can vanish in an instant. Computers break, hackers get in and do damage, lightning strikes or the little sweet grand kid stumbles over the power cord of the notebook computer left on the couch table and the computer crashes to pieces . . .

If you do not have a stable automatic backup solution in place then it may be time to call me or to send me an email. "Call him" you ask? My customers have my phone number, listeners of WTKM hear it all the time and you have two different ways here in the blog to contact me via email.

About Me

52 years in Information Technology and 34 years of experience with PCs as of 2016. Specialized in non-destructive virus and malware removal, home computer protection and showing my customers how to keep their computers "mean and clean". From 2004 to 2015 I was the regular computer guru on a local radio call-in talk show. From April 2015 through April 2016 I was bi-wwekly on WBKV 1470AM. I offer only house calls and work exclusively on MS-Windows. I do NOT sell hardware or software, I sell only my know how, my experience and my time.